>Remembering a tragedy in Ridgewood
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011
BY JOYCE VENEZIA SUSS
FOR THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
In 1991, I was the Bergen County reporter for The Star-Ledger; my husband and I had moved to Ridgewood two years earlier. One morning that October, I half dozed and listened to a radio newscaster talking about reports of a shooting in Ridgewood. I barely listened, assuming he was talking about the community in Queens … in New York … because there was no way a shooting would happen in our community …
The ringing telephone roused me awake.
“Joyce, you’d better get downtown fast,” said my husband, who had left minutes earlier to walk to the train station. “There are all kinds of police officers at Grand Union, and I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m not allowed to walk up Franklin Avenue.”
In that instant, it became clear that the shooting was in our Ridgewood. I dressed quickly, grabbed a notebook and ran into town a few blocks away. The rest of the day was spent reporting on a bloody rampage that many newer Ridgewood residents may not even know about.
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